Qualifications

DiplVw (University of Bonn, Germany), PhD (University of Nottingham)

Biography

Christoph Görtz joined the Department of Economics in July 2012. Prior to this he worked for one year as a temporary lecturer at the University of Nottingham. During the completion of his PhD Christoph also worked at the Bank of England where he contributed to the development of the Bank's new main forecasting model. Christoph's main fields of interest are macroeconomics and monetary economics. He is currently working on the effects of credit market imperfections on business cycles and the role of news, learning and anticipation effects for aggregate fluctuations.

Teaching

I am currently teaching the following modules:

Monetary Policy (3rd year BSc)

Macroeconomics (MSc)

DSGE Modelling (PhD)

Postgraduate supervision

Research areas I wish to supervise PhD students:

Macroeconomics, in particular in:

business cycle analysis and DSGE modelling

news, expectations and learning

financial intermediation and financial frictions

inventory and investment dynamics.

Other activities

Research Group:

Cluster for Research in Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Finance (CREMF)